Declassified Government Quotes & Sayings

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim. — Margaret Thatcher

God does not care If I am bad or good- He wants my love, Not my sainthood. — Sri Chinmoy

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works. — Noam Chomsky

It's interesting for me to always make myself look very different. — Gemma Arterton

And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of others read in archaic books with crackling spines. — Erin Morgenstern

I can't even fathom myself from twenty-four hours ago. I was so busy following my rotten little heart, Disney princess-style. I did end up in a palace, so that's cool. — Stefan Bachmann

You've gotta blow the roof off of your heart and let the universe in. — Lou Reed

It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged. — Mark Twain

In all, the American military, the C.I.A., the F.B.I. and other agencies used at least 1,000 ex-Nazis and collaborators as spies and informants after the war, according to Richard Breitman, a Holocaust scholar at American University who was on a government-appointed team that declassified war-crime records. — Anonymous

I didn't understand it at the time, but our bodies need attention and encouragement as much as our minds. They are not meant to be kept quiet, preserved like a specimen in a jar. We are meant to move. When we forget that we are not just intellectual, emotional, and spiritual beings, but also animals, we do so at our peril. — Jeff Horowitz

The other girls were so comfortable with their bodies and it eventually rubbed off on me. — Brooke Langton

Boaderland: Where women could be given away by their husbands to pay debts, and young, rowdy gallants from Wonderland, fresh from the rigors of formal education, came to indulge themselvs in roving pleasure tents; where maps were useless because the nation consisted wholly of nomadic camps, settlements, towns and cities, and a visitor might find the country's capital, Boarderton, situated in the cool sgadows of the Glyph Cliffs one day but spread out along Fortune Bay the next. — Frank Beddor

I have seen so many bands and musicians fade away, especially the ones in my early days that treated me and my bands with contempt for no other reason than that they were headlining the show, not all though, with great exceptions such as Slade and Vinegar Joe. — Bernie Marsden

life is your challenge, complete it — Andrew R. MacAndrew

I wonder if economics has less basic core material than is necessary for fields such as mathematics, physics, or chemistry, say. — Clive Granger

Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not to protect the country from enemies. — Noam Chomsky